344 pages ; 24 cm

"Strange Days Indeed tells the story of the decade that a young Francis Wheen walked into having pronounced he was dropping out to join the alternative society. Instead of the optimistic dreams of the Sixties he found a world on the verge of a collective nervous breakdown, huddled over candles waiting for the next terrorist bomb, kidnapping or food shortage warning." "Whether it was Nixon's demented behaviour in the White House, Harold Wilson's insistence that 'they' (whoever 'they' were) were out to get him, or the trial of Rupert Bear, it is a story almost too fantastical to be true. With his acute sense of the absurd, Francis Wheen slices through the pungent melange of mistrust and conspiratorial fever to expose the sickly form of a decade in which nations were brought to a sclerotic halt by power cults, military coups, economic anarchy and the arrival of Uri Geller."--Jacket

Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction: The paranoia blues -- Sleepless nights -- Stick it to the end, sir -- Going underground -- Madmen in theory and practice -- Going on a bear hunt -- Days of the jackals -- Such harmonious madness -- Eternal vigilance -- Crossing the psychic frontier -- The road to Ruritania -- Lords of the beasts and fishes -- Morbid symptoms -- In the jungle labyrinth -- Conclusion: Let's to the time warp again

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